California water board dislikes San Joaquin Valley farmers

OPINION AND COMMENTARY Editorials and other Opinion content offer perspectives on issues important to our community and are independent from the work of our newsroom reporters. A worker follows a raisin harvesting machine at a farm near Fresno in 2021. ERIC PAUL ZAMORA Fresno Bee file I want to thank the now-former climate and conservation […]

United States Helps Improve Access to Safe Water and Sanitation

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) inaugurated a set of clean water systems to improve the health and well-being of almost 8,000 people in the communes of Andonabe in the Vatovavy region and Andrainjato in the Haute Matsiatra region of Madagascar. ANTANANARIVO –The U.S. government, through U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), inaugurated on […]

Op-Ed: Beasley Is the Clean Water Candidate in U.S. Senate Race

The Cape Fear River provides drinking water for over 1.5 million North Carolinians. It flows southeast for over 200 miles, passing by three major North Carolina cities before reaching Wilmington, which sits at the bottom of the river basin and collects drainage and runoff from more than 29 counties across the state. For the people […]

Jackson leaders consider outside company to manage water treatment operations

It has been 18 days since Jackson residents have been able to use the water from the tap without boiling it first. Now, the Jackson City Council and Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba say it’s time to look at someone else running the city’s water treatment plant. What the city council wanted to do during Tuesday’s […]

Global security and clean water part of new Canadore funding

‘We were purposeful in selecting North Bay for the establishment of our Global Command Centre’ It took Craig McLellan one simple lecture at Canadore College to realize North Bay would be an ideal spot to relocate his business.  “I spoke to 90 first year software development students and at the end of my 10-minute talk […]

Sewage and potable water released into creek due to leak

Volume of water and sewage has not been determined but is in excess of 10,000 gallons – On Monday, a large volume of potable water and sewage was released in the vicinity of Broad Street and Ramona Drive in San Luis Obispo, due to a break in an 11-inch potable water main. Potable water entered a […]

NOTICE: Hamlet water violated standards

Photo from Pixabay HAMLET — Residents of the Seaboard City were recently notified of two violations of drinking water standards. A notification sent to residents noted that the violations do not represent an emergency. According to the notice, trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids were found in above standard concentrations during a quarterly compliance test. Both contaminants […]